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Objective of the lesson: familiarizing students with the content of G. H. Andersen’s fairy tale “The Steadfast tin soldier", its features.

Lesson objectives:

• Tell students the facts of the biography of H. H. Andersen.
• Read the fairy tale “The Steadfast Tin Soldier.”
• Analyze the fairy tale.
• Describe the characters of the fairy tale and their actions.
• Identify the author’s attitude towards the heroes of the fairy tale.
• Draw analogies between the events of the fairy tale and moments in the author’s biography.
• Direct educational emphasis on the difference between good and evil, on the affirmation of universal human values.
• Strengthen your skills in working with text.
• To develop students’ ability to express their opinion on an issue, the ability to work in a group, and listen to the statements of classmates (their position on an issue).

1. Lesson Introduction

(Slide 2)Teacher: We continue our journey through the land of fairy tales. Did you recognize the storyteller? Do you enjoy looking at his face?

Children: Yes. This is Andersen. He has a kind face. Sad slight smile. Wise look.

Teacher: Pay attention to the buildings that are shown on the slide. What can they “tell” you about?

Children: The buildings are old and quaint. These were built a long time ago. Andersen also lived a long time ago.

(Slide 3)Teacher: What fairy tales by H.H. Andersen have you read?

Children:“The Ugly Duckling”, “Thumbelina”, “The Little Mermaid”, “Flint”, “ Snow Queen"and others.

(Slide 4)Teacher: On our “green oak” there are apples with excerpts from Andersen’s fairy tales. I suggest you “pluck” (hyperlinks) them from the tree one by one and guess: what fairy tale are these lines from?

• (Slide 5) The Princess and the Pea;
• (Slide 6) Flint;
• (Slide 7) Ugly duckling;
• (Slide 8) Thumbelina;
• (Slide 9) Little Mermaid.

2. Report of brief biographical fragments from Andersen’s life

(Slide 10)Teacher: Andersen was born on April 2 in the Danish city of Odense, located on the island of Funen, in the family of a shoemaker.

(Slide 11)Teacher: Andersen's family lived poorly. Parents worked tirelessly, earning pennies. Consider the house where the writer spent his childhood. What confirms my words?

Children: The house is one-story. There are small windows and there are few of them. No decorations. This is the house of the poor.

(Slide 12)Teacher: Little Hans learned the fairy tales of his people early and, even as a child, began to invent his own fairy tales and poems. He dreamed of becoming an actor and performed home plays with homemade dolls. If the baby in the painting were little Hans Christian, what would he think while blowing bubbles?

Children: He was probably making up a fairy tale about a soap bubble. Or he fantasized about where the bubble would fly.

(Slide 13)Teacher: When Andersen turned 14 years old, he decided to go to Copenhagen, the capital of Denmark. The name of this city translates as “Trading Harbour”. Look at the photos of the city and tell me why?

Children: The city is a seaport with canals. Many people and traders come there.

(Slide 14)Teacher: Hans was always eager to learn. But due to poverty, he began to study at the gymnasium when he was 18 years old. Despite poverty, Andersen graduated not only from high school, but also from university. Think about what it was like for the future writer in the children's gymnasium?

Children: Uncomfortable because of the ridicule of classmates.

(Slide 15)Teacher: He gained worldwide fame as a storyteller after the publication of his first collection of fairy tales. In Russia, interest in the work of the storyteller arose during his lifetime, when some fairy tales were translated into Russian. Andersen wrote to the translator: “I am glad that my works are read in great Russia.”

(Slide 16)Teacher: Why do you think Children's Book Day is associated with Andersen's birthday?

Children: Children really like Andersen's fairy tales. They are understandable and loved.

Teacher: Many children's writers have been awarded the international prize. In 1974, S. Mikhalkov was awarded a Certificate of Honor, and in 1976, A. Barto received a Certificate of Honor.

3. Vocabulary work

(Slide 17)Teacher: Today we will read a fairy tale about the steadfast tin soldier. Before reading, let's look at the meaning of some words that you will encounter in the text.

4. Reading a fairy tale. Conversation after reading.

Teacher: Did your mood change after reading the fairy tale? Did you like the fairy tale? What are your highlights?

(Slide 18)Teacher: What different (even opposite) feelings does this fairy tale evoke in you?

Children: We are sad, sad, because the soldier and the dancer are dying. And at the same time, we are interested, entertaining, joyful from the fabulous miracles, from the bright love of a soldier and a dancer.

Teacher: Look at these two illustrations and decide which one we associate with a sad feeling and which one we associate with a happy one?

Children: The first illustration leaves a fabulously interesting impression. It depicts toys, the love of the main characters. The second illustration is very sad, we feel sorry for the soldier.

Teacher: In Russians folk tales always a happy ending, love conquers evil. Why in Andersen's fairy tale sad end? Why do heroes die? We will try to answer these questions when we carefully read the tale again.

5. Analytical reading of a fairy tale

(Slide 19)Teacher: In the first part of the fairy tale, we meet its heroes. What question do we want to ask toys: who or what?

Children: Who. They behave as if they were alive. They think and talk.

Teacher: How did the new toys make the boy feel?

Children: Joy.

Teacher: Find words in the text that support this feeling.

Children:“Oh, tin soldiers!”, “he shouted, clapping his hands,” “he immediately began to arrange them.”

Teacher: How was the steadfast tin soldier different from his “brothers” soldiers? How do the boy and Anderson feel about him? Find the words from the fairy tale that support your answers.

Children: The soldier did not have a leg (there was not enough tin when the tide was low). The boy played with a soldier, he did not throw away the damaged toy. The boy liked the soldier: “but he stood on his one leg just as firmly...”. Andersen also likes the soldier, “and he turned out to be the most wonderful of all.”

Teacher: Why did the soldier pay attention to the dancer?

Children: She was beautiful. They had something in common: “..decided that the beauty was also one-legged, like him.”

Teacher: Re-read the soldier's monologue in the first part. How do these words characterize the soldier?

Children: He admires the beauty and wants to make her his wife. But she worries that she will be uncomfortable with him.

Teacher: Why did Andersen write “But it still doesn’t hurt to get acquainted,” and not “I’ll go and get acquainted.”

Children: The soldier probably feels unworthy of the beauty and is afraid to meet her right away. That “she, apparently, is one of the nobles,” and an ordinary soldier would not be able to achieve her. He is “hiding” and just watching the young lady.

Teacher: Which of the heroes of Andersen’s other fairy tales felt just as “unworthy”, unlike the others?

Children: ugly duckling, Thumbelina among beetles, little mermaid among people.

Teacher: Hans Christian Anderson came from poor backgrounds. There were many sorrows in his life related to his origin. They mocked his “peasant blood” and did not accept him. But Andersen also had friends who appreciated his talent.

Teacher: How did the beauty treat the soldier? Re-read the beginning of the second part and find the answer to this question.

Children: While all the toys were playing, making noise, tumbling, making “noise and commotion,” the dancer “did not move.” She was unanimous with the soldier, because he, like her, did not participate in the general “noise,” he “did not take his eyes off her.” Maybe it was love? And the young lady noticed the poor soldier?

Children: Or maybe she didn't mean to notice him. Maybe she was proud and considered it beneath her dignity to pay attention to all sorts of soldiers.

Children: She was probably just shy; her upbringing did not allow her to meet first.

Teacher: Let us now rest a little and play theater artists while standing. Let's try to depict a soldier as he stands guard with a gun. Dancer. Toy games (children, standing near their desks, depict “living figures”).

Teacher: What toy don't you like? Why didn't you like him? Find the answer in the text.

Children: Black troll from a snuff box. He threatens the soldier. “Why are you looking where you shouldn’t.”

Teacher: Why does the troll think that the soldier doesn’t need to look at the beauty?

Children: Probably the troll considers himself a “cool” toy and the dancer too, and ordinary soldiers have no need to look at her.

Teacher: Imagine a snuff box. What did it look like before the lid opened?

Children: The snuff box must have been beautiful, because it was a small box for something. They were beautifully decorated.

Teacher: And from this “beauty” an evil troll suddenly jumps out. Think about it, what if this beautiful snuff box is compared with beautiful man, what can “jump” out of a person?

Children: Evil thoughts. Evil, ugly actions.

Teacher: Such people often met in the life of Hans Christian Andersen. Educated, cultural figures of Danish literature often made it clear that Andersen should know his place (the place of a tramp and a peasant) among gentlemen professors and academicians. “Everything good in me was trampled into the dirt,” Andersen said about himself. And the soldier ends up in the mud. When? Why?

Children: He fell out of the window onto the dirty pavement. It was either a troll who dumped him ( evil people), or a draft (fate).

(Slide 20)Teacher: What tests does the soldier go through?

Children: Standing upside down, sailing on a fragile boat, darkness of the stage, an angry rat, a huge canal, the stomach of a fish.

Teacher: How did the soldier pass these tests? Support with words from the text.

Children: He was worried, afraid, but still bravely endured all the trials. “I considered it indecent to shout in the street,” “I was trembling all over, but I held on steadfastly,” “I was silent and clutched my gun even tighter,” “I still held on steadfastly and didn’t even blink an eye,” “I was so scared.”

Teacher: How does Andersen feel about the soldier? Confirm.

Children: Worried about him. Calls him "poor guy."

Teacher: What or who helps the soldier cope with these trials?

Children: He always remembers the Dancer in a moment of danger. “Oh, if only that beauty were sitting in the boat with me - for me, be at least twice as dark!” “Then he thought about his beauty...”

Teacher: Previously, warrior knights had their own ladies. Thoughts about her, love for her warmed them in battle.

Teacher: During these tests, did the soldier hurt anyone, did he harm anyone? After all, his gun probably ended with a sharp tin bayonet, and he could have scratched the boys’ hands and damaged the fish’s stomach.

Children: No. The fairy tale says nothing about this. The soldier is afraid, suffers, but does not harm anyone. He endures stubbornly.

Teacher: So Andersen had to suffer and endure, steadfastly endure all the humiliations in life. At the same time, do not lose your kindness and tender attitude towards ordinary people.

(Slide 21) But the soldier's trials came to an end. And a miracle happened - as a reward for perseverance - he ended up in the same boy’s room and saw the beauty again! What did the soldier and along with him the author want to say with the words “That’s how tenacity is!”?

Children: The soldier admires the ballerina’s tenacity, because she stood on one leg all this time. And Andersen, as it were, admires the soldier with these words, admires his strong character.

Teacher: What words from the fourth part speak about the power of love between our heroes?

Children:“I was touched and almost cried,” “He looked at her, she looked at him, but they didn’t say a word.”

Teacher: Yes. Lovers often don't need words. They can communicate with their eyes. They understand each other, they are “on the same wavelength” of feelings. What words of the fairy tale abruptly “tear” the reader away from the contemplation of the bright love of the heroes?

Children:“Suddenly one of the boys...” The boy does something bad and throws the soldier into the fire.

Teacher: How do you explain the words “The troll probably set it all up!”

Children: This boy was probably a friend, an acquaintance of our little boy-owner. He's probably a calm, decent boy. Otherwise, he would not have been invited to visit our boy. But there was also an evil troll in it: maybe it was envy that he didn’t have such a toy.

Teacher: The soldier is on fire. How does he feel?

Children: He's hot. But even here he loves: “It’s terribly hot, from fire or from love - he himself didn’t know.”

Teacher: What about the young lady?

Children: The wind caught her and she fell into the fire with the soldier.

(Slide 22)Teacher: The heroes burn together. Do you think love won or lost?

Children: I won. IN real life they shouldn't be together. A troll would disturb them and do other dirty tricks. And now the soldier and the dancer will be remembered as the most unusual toys, their unusual fate.

6. Synthesis

Teacher: At the beginning of the lesson, we identified two moods of the fairy tale: bright and sad. Andersen teaches us that life can be different, sad and cheerful. That people and heroes of fairy tales have both positive and negative traits.

(Slide 23) I suggest the class divide into four groups. Each group will receive an illustration from a fairy tale to look at. You will have to consult and answer several questions: Which hero is depicted in the illustration? Name its positive and negative features.

(Image 1) Children: This is the boy who was given soldiers. He loves his toys and doesn't break them. He searched for a long time for the fallen soldier.

Children: In the fairy tale there is another boy - the first one's guest. Envy of the unusual soldier awoke in him.

(Image 2) Children: This is a black troll. He envies the soldier. Points at him, threatens him. Separates the soldier from the beauty.

Children: Before this, the troll was hiding in a beautiful snuff box, which everyone admired. Not expecting a “secret, a trick.” This snuff box helped the soldier to hide and he was not put in a box with the other soldiers.

(Image 3) Children: This is a lovely dancer. She won the heart of the tin soldier with her beauty. She flew into the fire after the soldier.

Children: Very inaccessible. She didn’t let the soldier know with any movement that she saw signs of his attention.

(Image 4) Children: This is a tin soldier. He loves a beautiful dancer. He steadfastly withstands all the trials that befall him.

Children: He is a little unsure of himself and does not dare to meet the young lady. Despite his strong character, he experiences fear during his forced journey.

7. Lesson summary

(Slide 24)Teacher: Now we will try to answer the questions that were asked at the beginning of the lesson. Why does Andersen's fairy tale have a sad ending? Why do heroes die?

Children: They were envied. Others didn't like them because they weren't like everyone else. In other toys and people, low feelings “awakened”, looking at the pure, bright love of the main characters.

Teacher: Yes, guys, in the world around us, the ratio of evil and good, light and darkness, joy and pain depends on each person, and it also depends on you, what choice you make. I wish you that your good, bright half will defeat all dark and evil thoughts and actions.

(Slide 25)Teacher: Homework will be connected with another illustration, which I invite you to consider. Of course, you recognize the fairy tale character in this illustration. Your task: reread the fairy tale and tell what you learned about this character. Why did Andersen choose her, how does she behave, do you like her?

There are many amazing heroes in Andersen's fairy tales. Each of them has their own destiny. They find themselves in extraordinary, sometimes even surprising stories or dangerous adventures, meeting evil or, conversely, kind and sincere strangers. But almost every hero may seem familiar to us, since the author tries to draw a parallel between the fairy-tale world and everyday life. human life. This is necessary so that, using the example of heroes, people see themselves, their actions and characters, evaluate their behavior and sometimes even reconsider some truths and moral values.

So the story of the steadfast tin soldier can be called amazing. He is sometimes called an example of defiant courage and courage, as a true soldier should be. Despite his fate, he is not broken and continues to fight for his happiness. The soldier is missing one leg because his creator ran out of tin. But at the same time, he stands firmly on one leg and is ready to go in search of his happiness and love on the most dangerous and amazing adventure. The appearance of such a hero is necessary in order to show people that in ordinary life there are also people with disabilities and their situation is not a vice, but a coincidence life circumstances or fate. And you should never reproach them for this, insult or humiliate them. Such people are a million times stronger than some others, without health problems, and for this they should be respected and supported.

And our hero meets a young dancer. She stands on one leg and the soldier thinks that she looks like him. He believes that this is his “soulmate.” But a million doubts arise in the soul of our soldier. He is a soldier who has been in war, brave, brave, straightforward. It is difficult to compare him with the prince who is often sought after beautiful girls. But our hero has a broad soul - kind, sincere. He can prove his love and affection with his actions, but this takes time, not one look. Such thoughts do not leave the tin soldier during his adventures.

But our hero’s fate is far from simple, and the adventures that befall him require a lot of courage, determination and inner strength. Not every hero can pass such tests. The soldier fell out of the window and ended up in huge world, filled with various events and other characters, albeit fabulous, but no less good or evil, dangerous or amazing. They ask the hero for a passport, but he had never thought about it before. After all, he is a soldier going to defend his fatherland, why do he need documents in such a situation? This requires strength, endurance and courage.

Reading about the experiences of our hero, we understand how fragile and vulnerable a heart can be, with its kind and sincere thoughts. But at the same time, it is so strong and self-confident that it can cope with any challenge. This is the image of our soldier. But the boy to whom our soldier ended up does not understand this. He doesn't want a toy with one leg, so he puts it in the fireplace. The tin from which the soldier is made melts quickly, but the hero's heart, small but full of love and sincere feelings, does not burn out, and becomes a symbol of devotion and love. A gust of wind causes the paper dancer to fall into the fire. The heroes die without telling each other about their feelings. After all, one can guess that the dancer paid attention to the brave soldier-hero, and she fell into the fireplace not because of the wind, but because of the desire to be close to the soldier. But only the hearts and souls of our heroes remain together, albeit under such circumstances.

The image of the main character evokes a lot of emotions. This is fear for his fate, and joy for meeting a beautiful dancer, emotions and some sadness at the end of the fairy tale. But the thoughts that we can take away from this work should remain in our hearts and be useful. These are reflections on the power of love, on kindness and sincerity, on courage, bravery and inner strength that can work miracles.

H.H. Andersen is the author of fairy tales known throughout the world. His fairy tales are read by both children and adults; they contain deep meaning. One of his creations is “The Steadfast Tin Soldier,” a story about one soldier who was different from all his brothers. He was one-legged because there was not enough tin for the second leg.

The main meaning of Andersen's fairy tale The Steadfast Tin Soldier

This touching story says that love is stronger than all terrible troubles and disappointments. And even if the world is full of evil and ignorance, you can overcome a lot if there is love.

Summary of Andersen The Steadfast Tin Soldier

The parents of a little boy decided to give their son 25 tin soldiers. The boy was very happy with the gift and immediately began to play with them. At this time, the one-legged but very persistent tin soldier was captivated not by playing with the boy, but by a beautiful dancer who stood on one leg and gracefully raised her other leg above her head. She lived in a cardboard house, the house was very beautiful. It had a beautiful garden, a lake and many rooms. And the beauty herself was made of cardboard, and on her chest there was a shiny brooch.

The soldier was so impressed by her beauty that he could not take his eyes off the dancer, but only thought about how to get to know her, the girl also looked at him. He decided to come closer, but suddenly his path was blocked by an evil troll who jumped out of a snuffbox standing near a cardboard house. He didn't like the way the soldier looked at the pretty girl. The troll cursed the soldier, promising him next morning big trouble.

With the onset of dawn, the soldier was found lying near the snuffbox and placed on the window; with a blow of wind, he fell straight from the third floor and got stuck between the stones. This is where the journey of the poor tin soldier began. On your own dangerous path he met an annoying rat who wanted to catch him, then a stream of water washed him into big canal. And when the soldier fell to the bottom, he did not stop thinking about one thing, about that beautiful dancer whom he loved so much. But fate had many surprises in store for him; the soldier was swallowed by a fish. He spent a lot of time in the fish's stomach until the fish were caught by fishermen and it went straight to the kitchen table the same house where they lost him.

The cook, having discovered an amazing find, immediately made the boy happy. And now the soldier was already at home, he saw a familiar room and the same cardboard house. But the boy acted cruelly to the soldier; he threw him into the burning fireplace. The soldier melted, but held firm. He could not take his eyes off his beloved, who was also looking at him. A draft swept through the room, and the cardboard dancer flew straight into the fireplace. It burned instantly and the soldier had already melted by that time.

In the morning, in the smoldering room, the cleaning lady found a small piece of tin that looked like a heart and a darkened, no longer so sparkling brooch.

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There were once twenty-five tin soldiers, maternal brothers - an old tin spoon, a gun on his shoulder, his head straight, a red and blue uniform - well, what a lovely soldier! The first words they heard when they opened their box house were: “Oh, tin soldiers!” It shouted, clapping its hands, little boy, who was given tin soldiers on his birthday. And he immediately began to place them on the table. All the soldiers were exactly the same, except for one, who had one leg. He was the last to be cast, and the tin was a little short, but he stood on his own leg as firmly as the others on two; and he turned out to be the most remarkable of all.

On the table where the soldiers found themselves, there were many different toys, but what caught the eye most was a palace made of cardboard. Through the small windows one could see the palace chambers; in front of the palace, around small mirror, which depicted a lake, there were trees, and wax swans swam on the lake and admired their reflection. It was all miraculously sweet, but cutest of all was the young lady standing on the very threshold of the palace. She, too, was cut out of paper and dressed in a skirt made of the finest cambric; over her shoulder was a narrow blue ribbon in the form of a scarf, and on her chest sparkled a rosette the size of the young lady’s own face. The young lady stood on one leg, her arms outstretched - she was a dancer - and raised her other leg so high that our soldier did not even see her, and thought that the beauty was also one-legged, like him.

“I wish I had such a wife! - he thought. “Only she, apparently, is one of the nobles, lives in the palace, and all I have is a box, and even then there are twenty-five of us stuffed in it, she has no place there!” But it still doesn’t hurt to get to know each other.”

And he hid behind a snuffbox that stood right there on the table; from here he could clearly see the lovely dancer, who kept standing on one leg without losing her balance.

Late in the evening, all the other tin soldiers were put into a box, and all the people in the house went to bed. Now the toys themselves began to play at home, at war and at the ball. The tin soldiers began to knock on the walls of the box - they also wanted to play, but could not lift the lids. The Nutcracker tumbled, the stylus wrote on the board; There was such a noise and uproar that the canary woke up and also began to speak, and even in poetry! Only the dancer and the tin soldier did not move: she was still standing on her outstretched toes, stretching her arms forward, he stood cheerfully and did not take his eyes off her.

It struck twelve. Click! — the snuffbox opened.

There was no tobacco, but a small black troll; the snuffbox was a trick!

“Tin soldier,” said the troll, “there’s no point in looking at you!”

The tin soldier seemed not to have heard.

- Well, wait! - said the troll.

In the morning the children got up and put the tin soldier on the window.

Suddenly - either by the grace of a troll or from a draft - the window flew open, and our soldier flew headfirst from the third floor - only there was a whistle in his ears! A minute - and he was already standing on the pavement with his feet upside down: his head in a helmet and his gun were stuck between the stones of the pavement.

The boy and the maid immediately ran out to search, but no matter how hard they tried, they could not find the soldier; they almost stepped on him with their feet and still did not notice him. He shouted to them: “I’m here!” - They, of course, would have found him right away, but he considered it indecent to shout in the street, he was wearing a uniform!

It began to rain; stronger, stronger, finally the rain poured. When it cleared up again, two street boys came.

- Look! - said one. - There's the tin soldier! Let's send him sailing!

And they made a boat out of newsprint, put a tin soldier in it and let it into the ditch. The boys themselves ran alongside and clapped their hands. Well, well! That's how the waves moved along the groove! The current just carried along - no wonder after such a downpour!

The boat was thrown and spun in all directions, so that the tin soldier was trembling all over, but he held on steadfastly: the gun on his shoulder, his head straight, his chest forward!

The boat was carried under long bridges: it became so dark, as if the soldier had fallen into the box again.

“Where is it taking me? - he thought. - Yes, these are all jokes of a nasty troll! Oh, if only that beauty were sitting in the boat with me - for me, be at least twice as dark!”

At that moment a large rat jumped out from under the bridge.

- Do you have a passport? she asked. - Give me your passport!

But the tin soldier was silent and clutched his gun even tighter. The boat was carried along, and the rat swam after it. Uh! How she gnashed her teeth and screamed at the chips and straws floating towards her:

- Hold him, hold him! He didn’t pay the fees and didn’t show his passport!

But the current carried the boat faster and faster, and the tin soldier had already seen the light ahead, when suddenly he heard such a terrible noise that any brave man would have chickened out. Imagine, at the end of the bridge, water from the ditch rushed into the large canal! It was as scary for the soldier as it was for us to rush in a boat to a large waterfall.

But the soldier was carried further and further, it was impossible to stop. The boat with the soldier slid down; The poor fellow remained stoic as before and didn’t even blink an eye. The boat spun... Once, twice - it filled with water to the brim and began to sink. The tin soldier found himself up to his neck in water; further more... the water covered his head! Then he thought about his beauty: he would never see her again. It sounded in his ears:

Strive forward, O warrior,
And face death calmly!

The paper tore, and the tin soldier went to the bottom, but at that very moment a fish swallowed him. What darkness! It’s worse than under the bridge, and what’s more, how cramped it is! But the tin soldier stood firm and lay stretched out to his full length, clutching his gun tightly to himself.

The fish rushed here and there, made the most amazing leaps, but suddenly froze, as if it had been struck by lightning. The light flashed and someone shouted: “Tin Soldier!” The fact is that the fish was caught, taken to the market, then it ended up in the kitchen, and the cook ripped open its belly with a large knife. The cook took the tin soldier by the waist with two fingers and carried him into the room, where everyone at home came running to see the wonderful traveler. But the tin soldier was not at all proud. They put it on the table, and - something that doesn’t happen in the world! - he found himself in the same room, saw the same children, the same toys and a wonderful palace with a lovely little dancer. She still stood on one leg, raising the other high. So much fortitude! The Tin Soldier was touched and almost cried with tin, but that would have been indecent, and he restrained himself. He looked at her, she at him, but they did not say a word.

Suddenly one of the boys grabbed the tin soldier and, for no apparent reason, threw him straight into the stove. The troll probably set it all up! The tin soldier stood engulfed in flames: he was terribly hot, from fire or love - he himself did not know. The colors had completely peeled off of him, he was all faded; who knows from what - from the road or from grief? He looked at the dancer, she looked at him, and he felt that he was melting, but he still stood firm, with a gun on his shoulder. Suddenly the door in the room opened, the wind caught the dancer, and she, like a sylph, fluttered straight into the stove to the tin soldier, burst into flames at once and - the end! And the tin soldier melted and melted into a lump. The next day the maid was clearing out the ash from the stove and found a small tin heart; from the dancer there was only one rosette left, and even that was all burnt and blackened like coal.

The main characters of this tale by the famous Danish storyteller can be called:

• Steadfast Tin Soldier
• Paper dancer
• Troll from a snuff box

Let's talk about each of them separately and try to understand how Hans Christian Andersen created them. We’ll also answer the question: what can they teach us or what can they warn us against?

Steadfast Tin Soldier

Soldier — central character of this fairy tale, the hero around whom its entire plot is built. It is his adventures, thoughts and feelings that Andersen describes throughout the entire narrative. Its main definition is persistent, both literally and figuratively. He stands firmly on his one leg and bravely goes through all adversity, finding himself in difficult situations.

This is certainly a positive hero who can teach such important qualities, like fortitude, the ability not to give up, even when it seems that there is no way out. And he also knows how to truly love. He is selflessly in love with the one who seemed to him similar to him, and therefore very close in some way. She, like him, knew how to stand on one leg and at the same time looked simply wonderful. No threats or obstacles could change the soldier’s feelings for the little paper ballerina.

Paper dancer

She doesn't say a word throughout the entire tale and doesn't even move. Therefore, her character is difficult to understand. But the main thing is that with her skill and beauty she attracted the attention of the soldier and gave birth to a real feeling in his soul - love at first sight.

Her feelings are revealed only at the very end, when she follows the soldier into the heat of the fireplace and dies with him. Everything in this fairy tale is not so obvious, perhaps it’s just a draft. But, nevertheless, I want to believe that this is love, and each of us can decide in our own way. This is the story.

Snuff Box Troll

He's jealous, angry, and probably can do magic, casting spells that make children do very strange things. For example, throwing a beautiful toy into the fire for no reason.

It is possible that in this way the storyteller hinted at the not always good behavior that each of us encounters in our lives. Perhaps this is the machinations of an evil troll? If so, then everything could end very sadly. For example, since this sad fairy tale ended. Therefore, it is important not to give him the opportunity to control himself.

We can say that this hero personifies all our worst thoughts, feelings and impulses. Maybe that’s why everything in this fairy tale is implicit and through “perhaps” and “perhaps.” After all, we always want to think that all evil is not from ourselves, and in fact we are kind and good.